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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Breaking glass',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2018/09/24.jpg" alt="Glass all over the counter" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="shattered">
	<h2>Shattered</h2>
	<p>
		Last night as I was making dinner, I accidentally pulled one of my good, glass mixing bowls from the top shelf of the cupboard.
		If hit the counter with a horrifying smack, and exploded into pieces.
		I&apos;d just put canned tomatoes into pot, so I checked them over for glass fragments.
		I couldn&apos;t find any.
		The angle was such that glass flying that way probably hit the side of the pot and bounced off.
		So I dumped the beans I&apos;d just strained into the pot.
		I don&apos;t know what I was thinking; I forgot to check the beans!
		Immediately, I noticed I&apos;d dumped class fragments into the tomatoes with the beans.
		The tomatoes and their mushy goop hid several of the smaller pieces, no matter how hard I looked and tried to pick them out.
		Had I noticed them in the beans, I could&apos;ve easily separated out the glass.
		As a worst-case scenario, I could have picked the <strong>*beans*</strong> out, leaving the glass behind.
	</p>
	<p>
		So that&apos;s what I&apos;ve been eating last night and today: chilli with glass fragments.
		I&apos;m trying to be careful and find the fragments with my teeth, but I can&apos;t be sure I&apos;m not accidentally swallowing any of them.
		Hopefully they&apos;re small enough not to do too much damage to my insides.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Embracing change can be difficult.
			We seem to have an instinctual resistance to change.
			I can&apos;t help but wonder how much of an evolutionary benefit this was in the past of our species.
			My guess is that with consistency came stable and less perilous living conditions.
			If things were bad, people would use change as a last resort, but if the situation was tolerable, change may have been avoided because with change, there was a chance the situation could degrade and become even worse.
		</p>
		<p>
			Like you said, you can&apos;t change people that don&apos;t want to change.
			This sounds very negative on the surface, but it&apos;s actually a very good thing.
			People are already easy to corrupt, but if you could change the unwilling, there&apos;d be no avoiding corruption in anyone.
			We&apos;d all be a mess of ever-shifting mindsets, and while a few of the many mindsets we&apos;d shift through would be arguably good, evil has a tendency to win out in our world.
			I can only imagine that an inability to hold on to what makes you yourself would worsen the situation.
		</p>
		<p>
			I&apos;m not sure if any particular methods are more effective against certain age groups than others, but in general, the young respond to change much more readily than the elderly.
			The longer we live, the more set in our ways we become.
			It becomes harder and harder for us to see reason, and we instead keep a death grip on the ideas we&apos;ve already come to accept.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
END
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